Entries from Notes from the University of Illinois Music Library tagged with 'composers'

A letter from Jonathan Hiam Curator, American Music Collection and The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts The John Cage Centennial is upon us. To celebrate Cage's legacy, The New...

2009 Grawemeyer Award Announced "The Lost Art of Letter Writing, a four-movement concerto for violin and orchestra by Australian composer Brett Dean, has earned the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition."...

'Chasing Light': Music Made For 50 States By Jeff Lunden NPR's All Things Considered, November 3, 2008 "It isn't every day that a small community orchestra gets to play a new work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer [Joseph Schwantner]. But...

A thought-provoking article about the language of music from the perspective of different musical camps, from the blog of Minnesota Orchestra violist Sam Bergman. "In yesterday's post, I talked a bit about conductors and arrangers who "speak the language" of...

Philip Glass: Complex Minimalist NPR Morning Edition October 3, 2008 "The music of Phillip Glass elicits an array of opinions. Some love it; some don't. Some just don't get it. When he sat down to talk with Morning Edition host...

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